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- INSTRUCTIONS FOR HEBREW QUIZ PROGRAM
-
- I. How to unpack this disk
- II. How to start the program
- III. How to stop the program
- IV. What to do at the "Opening Screen"
- V. Customizing the program for GRAPHICS, Demonstration Mode, etc.
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- Appendices:
- A. Examples of Frequency Lists
- B. Examples of Verbal Paradigms
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- I. How to unpack this disk
- A. If you have a hard disk,
- 1. Go to the directory you want the Hebrew program to reside in.
- 2. Insert this disk in drive A:
- 3. Type COPY A:*.*
- 4. Your Hard disk now has the program HEBREW.EXE and files.
- B. If you have two floppy drives,
- 1. Insert this disk in drive A:
- 2. Insert a blank disk in drive B:
- 3. Type COPY A:*.* B: then the ENTER key
- 4. You now have a working copy of the program.
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- II. How to start the program
- A. If you have a hard disk,
- 1. Go to the directory that has the program.
- 2. Type HEBREW then the ENTER key.
- B. If you have two floppy disks,
- 1. Insert your copied HEBREW disk in Drive A:
- 2. Type A: then the ENTER key
- 3. Type HEBREW then the ENTER key
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- III. How to stop the program.
- Continue to press the * key until you are out of the program.
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- IV. How to use the program.
- The Hebrew program is divided up into the following areas.
- A. Choosing what words you wish to be drilled on.
- 1. selections from vocabulary lists
- 2. grammatical or verbal paradigms given in a chapter
- 3. selections from frequency and verbal root lists
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- B. Choosing what about these words you wish to be drilled on.
- 1. Hebrew to English
- 2. Hebrew to parsing (verbs only)
- 3. English to Hebrew consonants
- 4. English to Hebrew
- C. The quiz itself.
- 1. Get a word right and it is removed from the current list
- 2. Get it wrong and it will reappear twice on the current list
- 3. All quizzes are graded and timed for added incentive
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- A. What words do you want to be drilled on?
- From the opening screen you have six ways of choosing.
- 1 -- Learn the order of the Hebrew Alphabet.
- Two letters appear. You must decide whether the one on the
- left comes BEFORE or AFTER the one on the right. Every
- possible combination is tested until you run out of time.
- 2 -- Choose from the Lambdin vocabulary lists.
- You can designate what range of chapters you want and
- what kinds of words you want on your vocabulary list.
- Words are divided into Nouns (1), Pronouns (2), Verbs (3),
- Adjectives (4), Prepositions (5), Adverbs (6), Conjunctions
- (7), Names (8), Particles (9) and Numbers (0).
- 3 -- Choose from Lambdin's grammatical paradigms.
- You can designate what range of chapters you want and
- what kinds of paradigms you want on your vocabulary list.
- Paradigms are divided into Names of Symbols (1), use of
- the Definite Article (2), Duals and Plurals (3), the
- Construct form (4), Prepositions and Suffixes (5),
- Pronominal Suffixes (6), Adjectives (7), Numbers (8),
- and Pronouns (9).
- 4 -- Choose from Landes Frequency and Cognate lists.
- You can make vocabulary lists based on cognate groups,
- frequency of words, types of words, or a combination.
- This section contains most of the vocabulary of the
- Hebrew Scriptures. See Appendix A for examples of how
- to use this Section.
- 5 -- Choose from Lambdin's verbal paradigms.
- You can choose verbs based on chapter of occurrance,
- characteristics of the verbal root, tense, person, gender,
- and several other characteristics. See Appendix B for
- examples of how to use this Section.
- 6 -- Progress through Lambdin or Landes in an orderly manner.
- 1 -- Go to the "next" section of Lambdin.
- 2 -- Review the sections you've already learned.
- 3 -- Choose from a list from the current lesson in Lambdin.
- 4 -- Choose all words associated with verbs that appear a
- certain number of times.
- 5 -- Choose all words that appear a certain number of times.
- ENTER -- Let the computer decide what you need to do.
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- B. Choosing what about these words you wish to be drilled on.
- Once your vocabulary list is chosen and loaded you will see
- the question "Quiz or Review?" Press R to Review your list.
- 1 -- Hebrew to English. This is the way the program normally
- drills.
- 2 -- English to Hebrew. To switch between the one and the other,
- from the REVIEW menu press the / key. If you have just
- chosen English to Hebrew, you are given the choice of
- including vowel points. If you say Y (Yes), you must
- always include vowel points. If you say N (No), you don't
- have to include vowel points but if you do, you can be
- marked wrong for them.
- Other options from the REVIEW menu are set up like a tape recorder.
- ENTER -- See the next word P -- See previous word
- F -- Fast forward B -- Fast reverse
- R -- Rewind to beginning ? -- Search for an English word
- * -- Return to Opening Screen X -- Exit program
- Q -- Quiz on these words
-
- C. The quiz itself.
- At any time in the quiz you can return to the REVIEW screen by
- pressing the * key.
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- V. Customizing the program.
- From the Opening Screen type 7 then RETURN. You have five
- options given here.
- 1. Press 1 to toggle between graphics and non-graphics adaptations
- of this program. The graphics version uses a beautiful Hebrew
- font, and in-color screens. The nongraphics version (default)
- is much rougher but should work on any computer.
- 2. Resets all "bookmarks" within the program to the first section
- of Chapter 1 of Lambdin's grammar.
- 3. Store owners, if you wish to show this program off, it has a
- "demo" mode in which it will quiz itself AND allow for user
- experimentation. The demo mode allows only Hebrew-to-English
- quizzing.
- 4. Before copying and shipping this program, use this option to
- reset all values to their default.
- * will return you to the Opening Screen.
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- Questions, Comments, Complaints, Payments?
- David Rapier, 80 Island Creek Road, Duxbury, MA 02332 is the maker.
- I'll be glad to hear from you.
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- APPENDICES
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- A. Examples of Frequency Lists
-
- From the "Opening Screen," press 4. Read the next screen,
- and press RETURN. Based on your answers, you will see various
- parts of an extended outline. The outline has two major sections
- -- Cognates and Vocabulary. Section I chooses what groups of
- cognates your vocabulary list will be chosen from. Section II
- chooses what specifications each word on the list must live up to.
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- 1. You want all the numbers in the list. [Numbers are type 0]
- I. Limit by Cognate? N
- II. Limit by Vocabulary? Y
- A. Limit by Frequency? N
- B. Limit by Type? Y
- What type? 0 ENTER
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- 2. You want all words appearing 50 times.
- I. Limit by Cognate? N
- II. Limit by Vocabulary? Y
- A. Limit by Frequency? Y
- 1. Minimum? 50 ENTER
- 2. Maximum? 50 ENTER
- B. Limit by Type? N
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- 3. You want all words based on verbs appearing 200-250 times,
- unless they are names or unless they appear less than 25 times.
- [Names are type 8]
- I. Limit by Cognate? Y
- A. Limit by Frequency of Root? Y
- 1. Minimum? 200 ENTER
- 2. Maximum? 250 ENTER
- B. Limit by Nonverbal cognate? N
- II. Limit by Vocabulary? Y
- A. Limit by Frequency? Y
- 1. Minimum? 25 ENTER
- 2. Maximum? ENTER
- B. Limit by Type? Y
- What type? 123456790 ENTER
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- 4. You want a list of all names appearing 50 or more times,
- together with the verbs they come from.
- I. Limit by Cognate? Y
- A. Limit by Frequency of Root? N
- B. Limit by Nonverbal cognate? Y
- 1. Minimum? 50 ENTER
- 2. Maximum? ENTER
- 3. Type? 8 ENTER
- II. Limit by Vocabulary? Y
- A. Limit by Frequency? N
- B. Limit by Type? Y
- What type? 38 ENTER {verbs, names}
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- B. Examples of Verbal Paradigms.
- From the "Opening Screen" press 5. Read the next screen.
- Press RETURN. EVERY QUESTION IN THIS SECTION IS EXPECTING A
- SERIES OF NUMBERS AS AN ANSWER!
-
- There are two steps to making a list of verbs to be quizzed
- on: what Hebrew words are to be included {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8} and
- what kind of English answer is wanted {9}.
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- For the first step, you have 8 choices for how to limit what
- Hebrew verbs are used -- by chapter, by root type, by
- conjugation, and so on. If you don't limit by chapter, all
- chapters are used; if you don't limit by root type, all kinds of
- verbs are used; if you don't limit by suffixal ending, all kinds
- of suffixal endings are used -- be specific! If you want to limit
- the choice of verbs by chapter (1), by root type (2) and by
- suffixal ending (8), then for the first question type 128 ENTER
-
- If you include a 9 in the first question (1289 ENTER), you
- can designate what kind of English response you wish to give.
- See the examples.
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- EXAMPLES
- 1. You want all Qal Perfect 3rd Masculine Singular No-Suffix verbs,
- and you want to identify what type of root they are.
- Options? 3456789 ENTER {3=Conjugation, 4=Tense etc.}
- 3. Conjugation? 1 ENTER {1=Qal}
- 4. Tense? 1 ENTER {1=Perfect}
- 5. Person? 3 ENTER {3=3rd Person}
- 6. Gender? 1 ENTER {1=Masculine}
- 7. Number? 1 ENTER {1=Singular}
- 8. Suffix? - ENTER {-=No suffix}
- 9. English? 1 ENTER {1=Verb type}
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- Result: For the Hebrew word KATAV you type STRONG.
- For the Hebrew word HAYAH you type HOLLOW III-HE.
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- 2. You want the verbs in chapter 10, and you want to identify
- them by person, gender and number.
- Options? 19 ENTER {1=by Chapter, 9=English def.}
- 1. Chapter start? 10
- Chapter end? 10
- 9. English? 456 ENTER {4=person, 5=gender, 6=number}
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- Result: For the Hebrew word NATAN you type 3RD MASCULINE SINGULAR
- For the Hebrew word AMADNU you type 1ST COMMON PLURAL
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